Walker v. The Transportation Company’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 150 · 1865
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1993 · most notably Craig v. Continental Insurance (1891), Earle & Stoddart, Inc. v. Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd. (1932)
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing in sections 182, 183, 184, 185 and 186 of this title shall be construed to take away or affect the remedy to which any party may be entitled, against the master, officers, or seamen, for or on account of any embezzlement, injury, loss, * * * on account of any negligence, * * * of such master, officers, or seamen, respectively, nor to lessen or take away any responsibility to which any master or seaman of any vessel may by law be liable, notwithstanding such master or seaman may be an owner or part owner of the vessel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not liable for the misconduct of the officers and mariners of the vessel, in which he does not participate personally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the officers and crews of the vessels, as representing the owners;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.